Almira Sessions

Biography

Washington, District of Columbia, USA

A member of a very socially prominent Washington family, Sessions played vaudeville, radio, television and film for sixty years. Sessions made her debut in 1909 in a comic opera. She has appeared over 500 times in movies and on television. Session sang comic songs in cabarets before going to New York to act on the stage. In 1940, she went to Hollywood to appear on Bob Hope's radio show and made her film debut that same year. Usually playing bit parts as aunts, landladies, gossips and the like, Sessions retired from films in 1971. Read more...<